Hard of Understanding

Writing - I say writing, but it was more STAMPING - an entry over on Golden Arches, I suddenly realised something.

I have spent years demonstrating that I am a very open minded person with the ability to see many points of view. After all I like the bigger picture!

But I harbour a dark secret. I'm a bigot.

It's true, I feel that I must confess, I am prejudiced and cannot hide it any longer!!!!

I hate.......................................... stupid people.

I do, I really hate them.

They provide some limited entertainment, but the novelty quickly wears off and then you are stuck with a twat who you spend more than a reasonable spell of time explaining minute details to whilst your knuckles go white and face red.

I tend to refer to many of them as customers.

Read in the paper today that we are the only country in the Western World where the number of new HIV cases is continuing to rise; makes you kinda proud dunnit?

Did leave me wondering why though - because we are a more promiscuous society or because we are more likely to get tested one way or another, be it a GUM Clinic visit or giving blood.

Either way, it got me thinking of something all the more marcabre, the issue of the hunt for a vaccine.

You see, I don't expect one to appear on the market for decades, if at all. And not because it simply can't be done.

I work for a business, my job is to generate money for it: fairly simple premise, I generate the cash and get a miniscule cut of it. Gives the shareholders their dividend and pays my mortgage all in one go.

But just how seriously do pharmaceutical companies take the search for a HIV Vaccine? I tell you, if I was devoid of ethics I wouldn't, and here's why:

Your job is to generate money for the shareholders, do you:

A: Discover the vaccine, make a short term fortune and then begin another costly hunt for something else to keep the company going or:

B: Discover the vaccine, surpress knowledge of it and continue to make Billions from palliative care remedies that could last a patient decades (or until your patent expires.)

Scary thought eh?

Just had another thought, I need to stop thinking

How do you calibrate calibration equipment?

Official, it's true it's evil propoganda.

Ok, so I'm getting carried away, but there's something not right about it.

I mean, look at the packets with the very good looking boy with the flawless complexion, bright white perfect teeth and blue eyes.

And we thought that the master race was dead.

As someone who has dabbled with pornography (watching not partaking!!!) I have always struggled with the concept of the Obscene Publications Act (all variations). The chances are that this is simply because I hold a very liberal view in life and do not like "nanny state" interference, you know the sort,

"We don't think that this is suitable for you so won't let you look at it." Oh, come on, I'm a fully fleshed adult and I've been capable of independent thought for a while now. Next you'll be telling me that I can't protest outside parliament if I don't like what the politicians inside are doing............................ oh, hold on.

Anyway, I digress. I was told by an acquiantance the other day, one with a very conservative view of society (liberal and conservative does not directly mean political affiliation btw) who said that there are going to be planned changes to the law re: Extreme Pornography and possessing it.

I'll be honest, extreme porn isn't my cup of tea, but I have met people who do like it, and they are perfectly normal folk who, strangely enough, aren't serial killers!!!!! And from what I've heard, the people who take part are mostly consenting (although without any regulating body it is difficult to substantiate) 

The premise is that by making it illegal to possess, violent sexual attacks may drop. Evidence - zero. So it would be a pre-emptive measure that would cost millions to implement and with no guarantees. Excellent.

But then it makes you think. It is unacceptable to possess sexual material that contains elements of violence, but it is fully acceptable to possess violent material that isn't of a sexual nature and invariably a lot more extreme?

My head hurts.